How do you tell which version of Xfree86 you have

[Dru Lee Parsec]

I need to select the latest drivers for my new NVidia card. But I then realized taht there are different drivers for different versions of XFree86. How do I tell which version I have?

Thanks.

[mdwatts]

'X -version' should do it.

[Dru Lee Parsec]

Wow, that was easy. I had know Idea that "X" was an executable program.

Thanks

[tminos]

X is the program itself.

'startx' is just a shell script that read the ~/.X<whatever> files, launches the window manager, startup apps, etc etc

[mdwatts]

If you check in the X11R6\bin directory (cannot remember the exact one), you will see that X is symlinked to the Xserver your video card uses.